Teheran, offense seek bounceback in Mets finale

It’s been a good season for the Atlanta Braves. It has not been a good season for Julio Teheran. Among the 77 pitchers with enough innings to qualify for the ERA title, Teheran is third-worst in MLB, and dead last in the National League, in fWAR. For every good stretch (e.g., three consecutive starts in April where he gave up a combined three runs, a two-start stretch against the Blue Jays and Diamondbacks where he allowed two combined runs and pitched into the seventh in each), he’s had a bad clunker or a poor stretch of starts. In particular, he hasn’t had two consecutive starts as bad his last two since the season began. Both of his most recent starts came against the Marlins — in the first, he allowed nine runs (seven earned) in four-and-a-third. In the second, he allowed three runs in five innings with a 4/4 K/BB ratio. The Braves lost the former and won the latter.

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